If it was just one board you were having probs with I'd say it was the board. If it's happened with two of them it's either extremely coincidental or a setting peculiar to that mobo. Some boards I've used have come with the CMOS jumper set in the 'Clear' position.
Have you checked that? Or if not, tried clearing the CMOS with the jumper in the 'Clear' position for about 20 seconds? (disconnect the power lead 1st)
Or, tried resetting the BIOS to 'Failsafe' defaults? Talking to the vendor? What does the beep sequence do when you progressively remove all hardware, including the CPU?
(Don't do what I did once, absentmindedly removed the heatsink but not the cpu!)
Ian Porter
Computer Guys
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: Edwin Bogert
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Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Bad news motherboards?
Dear Ian: I've tried 8 different sticks of ram from 32 to 128mb of sdram.
Once in awhile I get the long repeating beeps and the pwr-on led lites but
most of the time nothing at all happens,just the cpu cooling fan operating.
Tried 3 different cpu's too. Same results. All of the above mentioned ram
and cpu's work OK on other boards. Any more ideas? Thanks Edwin Bogert.
>From: Ian <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Bad news motherboards?
>Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 20:42:33 +1300
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>I had a similar thing happen once - turned out to be bad ram. Changed the
>stick for another make and the problem went away. Seems like certain mobos
>don't like certain kinds of ram.
>
>Ian Porter
>Computer Guys
>Arrowtown
>New Zealand
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Edwin Bogert
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 1:46 PM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Bad news motherboards?
>
>
> I recently purchased (2) brand new Biostar M6VCF mobo's and, installed
>them in mid-towers with 250watt power supplies. After following the set-up
>procedures outlined in their guides, I encountered the following problems.
>(1)--pushing the power on button lights the power-on led along with the HD
>led and it does it's blinking and such. Then--I get a series of
>long-repeating beeps continously and no video or anything. Upon pushing
>the power off button and holding it in until it powers off--the power led
>remains on until I open the main power switch. Iv'e tried all combinations
>of video cards,known good processors and, memory but to no avail. The
>mobo's are Biostar M6VCF boards with Award bios and, Via 694x-686b
>chipsets. Using celeron 500mhz ppga processors on 66mhz fsb and clocked at
>8.0. S3 savage 2000 64mb video card, 128mb pc100 ram C 20gb HD, 52x cdrom
>etc. etc. Like I said, Iv'e tried all combinations of these components and
>both boards react the same. Could both of the boards be bad right out of
>the box or did I mess-up or, miss something somewhere. Never never have
>had this problem before. Is there any help out there with the listers?
>TIA, Edwin Bogert [log in to unmask]
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